These regulations are promulgated under the
powers granted to counties by the Local Health Administration Law,
Act 315, P.L. 1304, adopted August 24, 1951, as amended; the Second
Class County Code Act of July 28, 1953, P.L. 723, as amended; the
Solid Waste Management Act of July 7, 1980, P.L. 380, No. 97, as amended;
and the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act
of July 28, 1988, P.L. 556, No. 101, as amended.

This chapter provides regulations for establishing
minimum standards for the regulation of the collection, processing,
storage, and disposal of solid waste and recyclable material essential
to prevent public health hazards in Allegheny County, establishing
minimum standards governing the condition and maintenance of recycling
facilities, solid waste processing, storage, and disposal facilities,
solid waste collection and transportation vehicles and other equipment;
fixing certain responsibilities and duties of owners, operators, and
others in control of the processing, storage, and disposal of solid
waste material and recyclable materials; issuing permits for persons
engaged in the processing, transportation, and disposal of solid waste
material and the processing and transportation of recycling materials;
authorizing the inspection of all vehicles, equipment, and facilities;
and providing notices, hearings, and penalties.

It is hereby declared that the inadequate provision
for the management of solid waste systems and recycling systems endangers
the public health by causing or contributing to pollution of the air,
water, and land, and provides a breeding place for insects and animal
pests and that the establishment and maintenance of proper solid waste
management standards and cooperation with other agencies to control
this problem are essential to the public health, safety and welfare.

A roadway or course providing vehicular access to a solid
waste management processing, transfer, or disposal facility, or recycling
facility or areas within the facility, from a road that is under federal,
commonwealth or local control.

Uncontaminated, non-water-soluble, non-decomposable, inert
solid material used to level an area or bring an area to grade in
a controlled manner, but not including materials placed into or on
any waters of the commonwealth. Clean fill includes the following,
if they are separated from other wastes at the point of generation:

A truck-mounted solid waste compactor, which comprises an
engine-powered truck cab and chassis or trailer, equipped with a compactor
body and associated machinery for receiving, compacting, transporting
and unloading solid waste.

Solid waste resulting from the construction or demolition
of buildings and other structures, including but not limited to wood,
plaster, roofing materials, drywall, metals, asphaltic substances,
bricks, block and unsegregated concrete. The term also includes dredging
wastes. The term does not include materials defined as clean fill
when separated from other wastes at the point of generation.

The deposition, injection, damping, spilling, leaking, or
placing of solid wastes into or on the land or water in a manner that
the solid wastes, or a constituent of the solid wastes, enter the
environment, are emitted into the air, or enter the waters of the
commonwealth.

The date after which no further treatment, maintenance, monitoring
or other action is or will be necessary at a municipal waste processing
or disposal facility to ensure compliance with the Solid Waste Management
Act, Act of July 7, 1980, P.L. 380, No. 97, as amended, the rules
and regulations adopted thereunder, and this chapter.

Any garbage, refuse, lunchroom or office waste and other material including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from the operation of residential, municipal, commercial, or institutional establishments, including hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools, universities, day-care facilities, and personal-care boarding homes, and from community activities, and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous waste under 25 Pa. Code Chapter 271 from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, or air pollution control facility.

A written advisory stating that a person has, through an
act of omission or commission caused, allowed to be caused, or allowed
to exist, a condition contrary to statute, law or rules and regulations,
or terms and conditions of a permit.

A written document identifying violations of statute, law,
rule and regulation of Allegheny County, the commonwealth, or the
United States, or terms and conditions of a permit, and mandating
actions to be taken immediately upon receipt or by a specified time
to correct the violations.

A natural person, individual, corporation, municipality,
county, political subdivision, partnership, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or
agency, state institution, authority, agency, or any other legal entity
whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and
duties. In any provisions of this chapter pertaining to a fine or
penalty, or any combination of the foregoing, the term "person" shall
include the officers and directors of any corporation or other legal
entity having officers and directors.

Any method or technology used for the purpose of reducing
the volume or bulk of municipal or residual waste or any method or
technology used to convert part or all of such waste materials for
off-site reuse. Processing facilities include transfer facilities,
composting facilities, and resource recovery facilities.

The collection, separation, recovery, and sale or reuse of
source-separated recyclable materials, including metals, glass, paper,
plastics, and other materials which would otherwise be disposed or
processed as municipal waste.

Any facility employing any method or technology that separates
or classifies source-separated recyclable materials and creates or
recovers usable materials that can be sold to or reused by a manufacturer
as a substitute for or a supplement to virgin raw materials. The term
includes material recycling facilities (MRF). The term does not include
transfer facilities, municipal waste landfills, composting facilities,
construction/demolition waste landfills, resource recovery facilities,
or processing facilities nor does the term include point-of-origin
and on-site activities.

A vehicle or machine used for the transportation of source-separated
recyclable materials on a street or highway. The term includes a roll-off
container transporter. The term includes a trailer. The term does
not include a tractor used to haul a trailer.

Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining, and agricultural operations, and
any sludge from an industrial, mining, or agricultural water supply
treatment facility, wastewater treatment facility, or air pollution
control facility, provided that it is not hazardous waste. The term
"residual waste" shall not include coal refuse as defined in the Coal
Refuse Disposal Control Act. Residual waste shall not include treatment
sludges from coal mine drainage treatment plants, disposal of which
is being carried on pursuant to and in compliance with a valid permit
issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law. The term does not include
lunchroom waste or office waste from industrial facilities.

Any municipal waste management facility using incineration
of municipal waste or its by-products to recover usable energy in
fuel-burning or combustion equipment, as defined in Article XX. This
term includes gas recovery systems.

A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. The term includes the following: (1) chemical
toilet, (2) holding tank, (3) privy, (4) incinerating toilet, (5)
composting toilet, and (6) recycling toilet, as those terms are defined
in 25 Pa. Code Chapter 73.

A vehicle or machine used for the transportation of solid
waste on a street or highway. The term includes a roll-off container
transporter. The term includes a trailer. The term does not include
a tractor used to haul a trailer.

Materials that are separated from municipal waste at the
point of origin for reuse including metals, glass, paper, plastics
and other materials which would otherwise be disposed or processed
as municipal waste.

The containment of any waste on a temporary basis in such
a manner as not to constitute disposal of such waste. The containment
of any waste in excess of one year constitutes disposal, unless evidence
to the contrary has been submitted, in writing, and accepted as such
by either the Department or Penn DER.

A facility which receives and temporarily stores solid waste
at a location other than the generation site, and which facilitates
the bulk transfer of accumulated solid waste to a facility for further
processing or disposal. The facility includes land affected during
the lifetime of operations including areas where storage or transfer
actually occurs, support facilities, borrow areas, offices, equipment
sheds, air and water pollution control and treatment systems, access
roads, associated on-site or contiguous collection and transportation
facilities, closure and post-closure care and maintenance activities,
and other activities in which the natural land surface has been disturbed
as a result of or incidental to operation of a transfer facility.
A facility is a transfer facility regardless of whether it reduces
the bulk or volume of waste. The term does not include portable storage
containers used for the collection of municipal waste other than special
handling waste.

Any method, technique, or process, including neutralization,
designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character
or composition of any waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as
to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, suitable for
recovery, suitable for storage, or reduced in volume. Such term includes
any activity or process designed to change the physical form or chemical
composition of waste so as to render it neutral or nonhazardous.

A watertight tank designed to retain sewage long enough for
satisfactory bacterial decomposition of the solids to take place.
The term includes the following: (1) septic tank and (2) aerobic sewage
treatment tank, as those terms are defined in 25 Pa. Code Chapter
73.

A material whose original purpose has been completed and which is directed to a disposal or processing facility or is otherwise disposed. The term does not include source-separated recyclable materials or material approved by the Department for beneficial use under 25 Pa. Code Chapter 271, § 271.232 (relating to beneficial use).

In order to carry out the purpose and provisions of
this chapter, the Director, upon showing proper identification of
office, may enter and inspect any property, records which are required
to be kept by this chapter, the Solid Waste Management Act or the
Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, and equipment
at all reasonable times and, in an emergency at any time. The owner,
operator, employee, or any person having custody or control of such
property, records, or equipment shall give the Director free access
for the purpose of such inspections.

Any time that the Director is denied access for the
purpose of inspection at any facility, any permit issued under this
or other Department rules and regulations may be immediately suspended
and such suspension may continue until such time as an inspection
is made by the Department.

Whenever the Director determines that there has been
a violation of any provision of this chapter or any applicable laws
and regulations of Allegheny County, the commonwealth or the United
States, he may give notice of the violation, may issue orders to such
persons as he deems necessary to aid in the enforcement of the provisions
of the regulations of Allegheny County, the commonwealth, or the United
States, or may immediately proceed with enforcement.

Any person aggrieved by any action of the Department
may request and shall be granted a hearing in accordance with Allegheny
County Health Department Rules and Regulations Article XI, Hearings
and Appeals.

Whenever the Director determines that an emergency
exists which necessitates immediate action to protect the public health,
safety, or welfare, he may without prior notice, issue an emergency
order citing the existence of the emergency and requiring corrective
action necessary to abate the emergency. Notwithstanding the provisions
of this chapter, this emergency order shall be effective upon service
and shall be complied with immediately.

In the event of the failure to comply with commonwealth
or County regulations, or with an order issued pursuant to any section
or subsection of this chapter, the Director may impose civil penalties;
institute appropriate actions or proceedings in law; or institute
proceedings in equity to restrain, correct, or abate the violation
of the order; or cause the order to be carried out at the expense
of the County; or any combination of these actions.

Following the issuance of a notice of violation, the
Director may impose civil penalties; institute appropriate actions
or proceedings in law or in equity to restrain, correct, or abate
the violations; or take any other action available to him to cause
the violation to be abated.

No person may own or operate a municipal waste disposal
facility, processing facility, residual waste facility, construction/
demolition waste facility, chemotherapeutic waste facility, infectious
waste facility, special handling waste facility, resource recovery
facility, leaf composting facility, yard waste composting facility
or recycling facility unless the person has obtained and is in possession
of an unrevoked or unsuspended annual operating permit for the facility
from the Department. An annual operating permit is required until
final closure of the facility. An operating permit is not required
for:

The use or application of poultry and livestock manure,
or residual materials in liquid or solid form generated in the production
and marketing of poultry, livestock, fur-bearing animals and their
products, provided that such agricultural waste is not hazardous waste.
The term includes the residual materials generated in producing, harvesting,
and marketing of all agronomic, horticultural, and silvicultural crops
or commodities grown on what are usually recognized and accepted as
farms, forests, or other agricultural facilities.

A gas recovery system installed at a municipal waste
disposal facility, residual waste disposal facility, or construction/demolition
waste disposal facility with a current valid permit from the Department.

Application for an annual operating permit shall be
made to the Department on the application form provided by the Department.
A separate application shall be filed whenever there is a need to
amend or modify a permit or when the operator wishes to accept waste
not previously approved in the permit. Following receipt of the application,
the applicant will be invoiced for the permit application fee.

Renewal applications for an annual operating permit
need not contain or be accompanied by the information required by
the applicable sections of Penn DER's regulations. Renewal application
forms shall include:

At least 10 days prior to the sale or transfer of
any facility permitted under this chapter, the Department shall be
notified, in writing, of such contemplated sale or transfer. The Department,
at the request of any party, shall keep such information confidential.
The Director may allow the purchaser to operate the facility upon
notice of the sale or transfer and submission of an application pending
the application approval.

Annual operating permits issued under this chapter
shall expire on December 31 of the permit year. Permits shall be renewable
annually, if the applicant has met all the requirements of this chapter
and has submitted payment of the annual operating permit fee.

The Director may issue an emergency or temporary permit
or authorization for storage, transportation or processing of solid
wastes to prevent or alleviate an actual or potential detrimental
impact on the public health.

This section shall not apply to vehicles transporting
wastes or recyclable materials through Allegheny County where there
is no addition to, transfer of, or disposal of such wastes or recyclable
materials within Allegheny County.

It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person
to transport solid waste; treatment tank pumpings; retaining tank
pumpings; residual waste; special handling waste; infectious waste;
chemotherapeutic waste; solid waste to be composted; or source-separated
recyclable materials within, into, or out of Allegheny County without
a current, valid permit issued by the Department for the solid waste
transportation vehicle, recycling transportation vehicle, or compactor
vehicle used to transport the aforementioned materials.

Vehicles of 7,000 pounds' gross vehicle weight or less which transport those wastes referenced in Subsection B, other than as part of the conduct of a business endeavor, are exempt from the requirements of this section.

Exempt activities. Residential contractors, including
landscapers; plumbers; home remodelers; heating, air conditioning
and ventilation contractors; and residential roofing contractors who
only transport construction/demolition waste generated at a job site,
are exempt from the requirements of this section.

The solid waste transportation vehicle, compactor
vehicle, recycling transportation vehicle or compactor complies with
the standards contained in this chapter and other applicable rules
and regulations and laws of Allegheny County and the Commonwealth,
including the provisions of 25 Pa. Code Chapter 285 and the Municipal
Planning, Recycling, and Waste Reduction Act, Act of July 28, 1988,
P.L. 556, No. 101, as amended.

The solid waste transportation vehicle, recycling
transportation vehicle, or compactor vehicle has a current, valid
registration in at least one of the 50 states of the United States
or the District of Columbia.

A permit issued under this section shall expire on
April 30 of each calendar year. Permits shall be renewable annually,
if the applicant has met all the requirements of this chapter and
has submitted payment of the permit fee.

Every solid waste transportation vehicle, recycling
transportation vehicle, compactor vehicle, solid waste storage container,
roll-off container, and compactor used for the storage or transportation
of solid waste, waste to be composted or source-separated recyclable
materials shall have a body constructed of easily cleanable, nonabsorbent,
waterproof material with no means of ingress or egress of animal pests.

All joints in the hauling or storage body of the solid
waste storage container, the solid waste transportation vehicle, or
the recycling transportation vehicle shall be effectively closed and
smooth so that no dripping or leakage of draining water or liquid
or any loss of debris can occur.

Every solid waste transportation vehicle, compactor
vehicle, solid waste storage container, recycling transportation vehicle,
and compactor shall be provided with a means of covering the solid
waste to be hauled or stored, and of keeping such solid waste securely
within the hauling or storage body. Waste shall be covered at all
times unless actively being loaded or unloaded or otherwise exempt
from being covered by this chapter.

Roll-off containers shall be securely covered when
being transported from a customer's location to a solid waste disposal
facility, processing facility, or transfer station and anytime when
containing putrescible waste.

The cover shall be either a tight metal hood or lid
having adequate openings fitted with smoothly operating and unloading
doors; or a heavy tarpaulin or other cover fitted with proper eyes,
grommets, and tie ropes and hooks, whereby the cover can be held securely
over the loaded wastes to prevent any waste from blowing or falling
out of the hauling body during transportation.

No solid waste transportation vehicle, compactor vehicle,
solid waste storage container, or compactor shall be used to transport
food, food stuffs, or food additives intended for human consumption
nor shall they be used to transport materials intended to be used
as packaging for food, food stuffs or food additives intended for
human consumption.

Every solid waste transportation vehicle, compactor
vehicle, solid waste storage container, roll-off container, and compactor
used for hauling municipal waste shall be cleaned and sanitized before
being used for purposes other than the storage or transportation of
waste.

No solid waste transportation vehicle, compactor vehicle,
solid waste storage container, roll-off container, or compactor without
a permanent cover shall be loaded with waste to a level above the
side wall height. A tarpaulin or similar cover is not a permanent
cover.

No solid waste transportation vehicle, compactor vehicle,
solid waste storage container, roll-off container, recycling transportation
vehicle, or compactor shall be loaded with waste in a manner which
will permit material to fall to the ground while it is in motion.

Whenever vehicles are to be used for the transportation
of solid waste containers or roll-off containers holding waste matter,
the solid waste container or roll-off container becomes the hauling
body of the vehicle and shall comply with the requirements of this
section pertaining to hauling bodies.

The sign on solid waste transportation vehicles, compactor
vehicles or recycling vehicles shall have lettering that is six inches
in height. If available space for lettering is so limited that all
letters cannot be six inches in height, the lettering shall be as
close to six inches as possible. The sign on the solid waste storage
containers, roll-off containers or compactors shall be clearly visible
and easily readable.

The permit shall be placed on the driver side of the
hauling body within three feet of the cab of solid waste transportation
vehicles, recycling transportation vehicle, or compactor vehicles
and on the side of a compactor so as to be easily viewed.

Except for infectious waste, the storage of solid
waste for more than 24 hours in a solid waste transportation vehicle
or compactor vehicle is prohibited. Infectious waste may not be stored
in an unrefrigerated environment for more than 48 hours; if the infectious
waste is stored in a refrigerated environment (2° to 7° C.)
or in a frozen environment (-20° to -18° C.) the storage period
may not exceed five days.

Any solid waste transporter or source-separated recyclables transporter discovering a violation of § 570-14L, regarding residential infectious waste, of this chapter, shall provide educational materials on the proper disposal of residential infectious waste to the offending occupants. The transporter may, at his discretion, notify the municipality and the Department of second and subsequent offenses.

The Department, in its enforcement of this regulation,
shall do so in accordance with the rules and regulations of Penn DER.
The Department may adopt or enforce a more restrictive standard than
that of Penn DER.

Solid waste management systems, prohibition. It shall
be unlawful for any person to install, construct, alter, or operate
any solid waste management system, including transfer facility, processing
facility, disposal facility, recycling facility, incinerator, composting
facility, or any other approved method for the disposal of solid waste
or source-separated recyclable materials, unless such person has complied
with the requirements and standards contained in this chapter, Article
XX, all other applicable rules, regulations, and laws of Allegheny
County, the Commonwealth, and the United States.

Solid waste management, prohibition of unpermitted
disposal. It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose or cause
the disposal of solid waste upon any public or private property or
into the waters of the Commonwealth except in an approved manner as
provided by this chapter.

Standards. Planning, design, and operation of any recycling facility, solid waste management facility or area of a solid waste management system, including municipal waste disposal facilities, construction/demolition waste disposal facilities, residual waste disposal facilities, incinerators, composting facilities, transfer facilities, processing facilities, and solid waste salvage operations, shall be in accordance with the applicable regulations in 25 Pa. Code Chapters 271 through 299, inclusive. The Department may adopt such standards as it deems necessary to prevent nuisances and pollution of air, land, or waters of Allegheny County. Such standards shall include procedures to ensure suitability of the site and the proper operation of the solid waste management systems and recycling facilities. No person shall operate a solid waste management system or recycling facility which is not in compliance with these standards.

All areas of all recycling facilities and solid waste
management systems, including all storage, transfer, processing and
disposal facilities shall be operated in such manner as to prevent
public health hazards and environmental pollution.

Salvaging of materials is permitted only when properly
controlled to prevent interference with prompt, sanitary disposal
of solid wastes and in such a manner that these operations will not
create health hazards.

The processing, storage, or disposal of municipal
waste, residual waste, chemotherapeutic waste, infectious waste, special
handling waste, and source-separated recyclable materials in a wetland
or in such a manner as to constitute stream encroachment is prohibited.

Any person, business, or institution using any solid
waste storage containers shall ensure that the solid waste storage
container area is maintained in such a manner as to prevent public
health hazards and environmental pollution.

Any person, business, or institution using any solid
waste storage containers shall provide a sufficient number of solid
waste storage containers or an adequate frequency of pickup to assure
that all solid waste is contained within the solid waste storage containers
at all times.

Any person, business, or institution using any solid
waste storage containers shall ensure that such containers are covered
with lids or other devices to prevent access by animal pests with
the exception of roll-off containers at a construction, demolition
or remodeling sites unless used for putrescible waste.

All infectious wastes and chemotherapeutic wastes
generated in or by any medical facility, hospital, clinic, doctor's
office, dentist's office, mortuary facility, morgue, or in-home dialysis
provider shall be stored separately from other solid wastes, in containers
clearly marked as infectious waste, chemotherapeutic waste, or biological
hazard and in a manner to prevent unauthorized access. It shall be
the responsibility of the person generating infectious and chemotherapeutic
wastes to ensure that all sharps are rendered non-usable and disposed
of in puncture-resistant containers. Storage, transportation, sterilization,
and disposal shall be in accordance with the requirements of Penn
DER regulations.

For residential-generated sharps and other infectious
wastes, it shall be the responsibility of the person generating such
wastes to ensure that such wastes are placed in a hard, dear plastic
container with a tight fitting lid and be sealed with tape. Glass,
metal cans, opaque plastic, or other containers are not permitted.
Any container used for the disposal of residential generated sharps
or other infectious wastes is prohibited from being commingled with
source-separated recyclable materials. These containers shall be disposed
with other residential solid waste.

When the Director has identified the improper disposal
or storage of solid waste, the Director may require the owner or occupier
of the property, or the generator of the waste, to properly dispose
or store such waste notwithstanding the fact the owner or occupier
did not dispose or store such waste.

No person or municipality shall dispose of any recyclable
material collected as a source-separated recyclable. No person or
municipality may place collected source-separated recyclable materials
into a solid waste transportation vehicle or container where it is
commingled with solid waste for disposal as waste.

The land disposal, land application, or incorporation
of treatment tank pumpings, retaining tank pumpings, or sewage sludge
commingled with treatment tank pumpings or retaining tank pumpings
is prohibited. This is not to be construed to prohibit land reclamation
with stabilized sewage sludge which has not been commingled with treatment
tank pumpings or retaining tank pumpings.

All municipal waste generated within Allegheny County
(except source-separated recyclable material) shall be disposed or
processed at those facilities cited in the approved Allegheny County
Municipal Solid Waste Management Plan-1990 or any subsequent revision
thereto.

Each city, borough, township and municipality within
Allegheny County shall be responsible to assure that all residential
municipal waste (except source-separated recyclable material) generated
within their boundaries be disposed only at those municipal waste
disposal and municipal waste processing facilities cited in the approved
Allegheny County Solid Waste Management Plan-1990 or any subsequent
revisions thereto.

Each person engaged in the transportation of source-separated
recyclable materials; wastes to be composted; or solid waste shall
file a quarterly report with the Department by the fifteenth of April,
July, October, and January, listing the amount in tons of wastes or
source-separated recyclables and types of waste or source-separated
recyclables handled each day, setting forth the municipality from
which it was obtained, and the place of recycling, composting, disposal
or incineration of each load. Reports are to be submitted on forms
provided by the Department and in the method set forth on the forms.

Each person engaged in the transportation of source-separated
recyclable materials; wastes to be composted; or solid waste shall
file an annual report by March 31 for the preceding year. This report
shall include a description of operations, method(s) of disposal,
counties and municipalities of the origin of the waste, and copies
of contracts with disposal, processing, or transfer facilities.

Upon the request of the Director, any person engaged
in the removal or transportation of solid waste shall submit a manifest
for a specifically identified customer, job site, or waste material
to the Department on forms provided by the Department for each load
or partial load of solid waste. The manifest documents shall include
the name and business address of the generator, the generation site,
the name and business address of the hauler, the name and business
address of any processing and/or storage facilities to which the waste
is transported, the name and address of the ultimate disposal facility,
the dates each transfer of responsibility occurred and any other information
determined to be necessary by the Department.

Each person engaged in the transportation of solid waste which requires the completion and submission of a manifest pursuant to the requirements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) regulations shall submit copies of all such manifests with the quarterly report required under Subsection A.

Vehicles of 7,000 pounds' gross vehicle weight or less which transport those wastes referenced in § 570-12B other than as part of the conduct of a business endeavor are exempt from the requirements of Subsections A and B.

Exempt activities. Residential contractors including landscapers; plumbers; home remodelers; heating, air conditioning and ventilation contractors; and residential roofing contractors who only transport construction/demolition waste generated at a job site are exempt from the requirements of Subsections A and B.

Upon the recommendation of the Director and
upon approval of the Board of Health a Solid Waste and Recycling Management
Fee Schedule shall be established. Those solid waste management facilities
possessing a valid operating permit from the Department and those
recycling and composting facilities in operation prior to May 1, 1994,
are not required to pay a permit application fee. The minimum fees
are on file in the County offices.

Summary offenses. Any person who violates any of the
provisions of this chapter or who interferes with the Director or
any other agent of the Department of Health in the discharge of his/her
official duties, shall, for the first offense, upon conviction thereof
in a summary proceeding before any alderman, magistrate or justice
of the peace of Allegheny County, or before any police magistrate
if such offense be committed in a city of the second class, be sentenced
to pay the costs of prosecution and a fine of not less than $30 nor
more than $300 and, in default thereof, to undergo imprisonment of
not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days.

Misdemeanors. Any person who violates any of the provisions
of this chapter or who interferes with the Director or any other agent
of the Department of Health, in the discharge of his/her official
duties, convicted of a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 or to undergo
imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

Separate offenses. For the purpose of this section,
violations on separate days shall be considered separate offenses.
Each violation of any separate subsection or section of this chapter
shall constitute a separate offense.

Civil penalties. Pursuant to the provisions of the
Department's Rules and Regulations Article XVI, Environmental Health
Civil Penalties, any person who violates any of the provisions of
this chapter may be assessed a civil penalty whether or not the violation
is willful.